asylum
noun US /əˈsɑɪ·ləm
1. protection or safety, or a protected and safe place, given esp. to someone who has left a country or place for political reasons: The refugees have asked for political asylum.
2. a mental hospital, or any other institution giving shelter and other help to poor or suffering people: He was committed to an insane asylum in 1899.
This place could be a little bit of both, eh? ![]()
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